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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Closely Aligned Functional Needs The most common reason that a language and platform is chosen is because there's an existing set of (often open source) functionality that you can tap into that aligns closely with your functional needs. It's way easier to get your pages setup in these languages than by choosing Java alone.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

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» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages? Java… Neo4J?

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages? Java… Neo4J?

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Oracle’s Java API Suit Against Google – Five Years Later

Feld Thoughts

Five years ago, in August 2010, I asked the question Have We Reached The Software Patent Tipping Point? Oracle sued Google over a series of Java-related patents they got when they acquired Sun. “The s**t finally hits the fan… Thursday August 12, 2010. ” Oracle also got copyrights to the Java APIs.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. Tactical Draw-up and control complete IT operational and capital expenditure budgets for IT. Understanding of relevant laws, regulations and information security best practices. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

In the birthplace of Java, BSD, SQL and many other critical software technologies, Drupal and PHP are spreading like a California wildfire. Drupal is also free open source software with functionality for every possible web application. What is Drupal? Drupal is prevalent in the Silicon Valley ecosystem? What is Drupal?

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects. At least in strongly typed languages such as Java. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.